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From: Steven Thomas <sthomas314@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: M-x shell, run 'emacs --help', get colorized output... why?
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:11:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik4nM7dg0LWP3RuMG5wynZ2Tt2Q=e3Q8v_8TU7M@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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I notice that emacs shell-mode colorizes certain strings in the output of a
command you run. For example most (though not all) words starting with - or
-- get colorized. You can see this if you run emacs --help. I don't see this
goofy colorization in term mode or eshell mode.

Can anyone explain what the deal is? A cursory look at the code in shell.el
didn't reveal anything, but I'm sure that somewhere emacs must be deciding
to add colors to the output.

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-01-17  2:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-17  2:11 Steven Thomas [this message]
2011-01-18  9:20 ` M-x shell, run 'emacs --help', get colorized output... why? Oleksandr Gavenko
2011-01-22  1:48 ` Steven Thomas
2011-02-06 20:59   ` PJ Weisberg

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